There is a new study regarding blood pressure that finds the treatment of high blood pressure reduced the risk of death by 25%. It also found that for people 50 years or older the reduction of blood pressure saves lives and reduces the number of strokes. This above-mentioned study found that having your systolic blood pressure at 120 instead of 140 caused the healthy changes listed above. Before you increase the level of your medication try the natural way to reduce your

Thinking about the Transtheoretical Model of Change (Prochaska, Norcross & DiClemente, 1994), we can plot any change of behavior according to the stage the person is in. The first, the Precontemplative, is where a person has not even decided that change needs to occur. Other people may think so, but the individual doesn't yet register that need. Then in the Contemplative stage, a person starts to consider that they do need to change. Their behavior might have resulted in prob